A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…

And Seneca (whither Philosophically or Rhetorically) observes, that obstinacy and resolvedness ⟨p. 225⟩in grief, doth so alter the nature of it, ut fiat tandem infelicis animi prava voluptas dolour. That at¹ length it turns into a kind of pleasant pain, sure I am the Apostle biddeth us count it Joy, when we fall into temptations.

And Seneca (whither Philosophically or Rhetorically) observes, that obstinacy and resolvednesse ⟨p. 225⟩in griefe, doth so alter the nature of it, ut fiat tandem infelicis animi prava voluptas dolor. That at¹ length it turnes into a kind of pleasant paine, sure I am the Apostle biddeth us count it Ioy, when wee fall into temptations.

1. 1Et quadam etiam dolend, volup•. Plin. l. 8. ep. c. 6.

The last presence of Grief was Real, when some ponderous evil either of Affliction or of Sin, the loss of some good wherein we delighted, the disappointment of some hope whereon we relied meeting with impotency in our selves, to remove what we suffer, to recover what we lose, to supply what we want, doth bruise and lie with a heavy weight upon the tenderest part of Man, his Soul and Spirit. And in this I cannot find considered merely in it self any worth at all (it being nothing else but the violation and wounding of Nature) but in order to the effects which it produceth, it may have sundry denominations, either of a serviceable, or of a corrupt affection. I shall but briefly name them, and pass over to the next.